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One interesting detail: I like that the realistic hand itself is consistent. What I mean is that it’s always the right hand that is shown. In the photo where SUNNY shoves his sister down the stairs, you can see his right arm is the one he used in that altercation, and in THE TRUTH segment in the recital room, his right hand is the one that’s losing fingers. The hand shoving him down the SOMETHING IN THE DARK encounter is also a right hand. This is very good attention to detail and a lot of other games sometimes don’t get this stuff right. It shows how much effort and revision must have gone into OMORI.
I see the hurting of his right hand as his brain reacting to his guilt like how people do self harm because of guilt, and it’s just trying to keep him from feeling the pain of their guilt
It is most likely not physically possible in this case, because violin only creating musical frequency by the bow scratching the strings(they are pulled on much tighter than a guitar strings). Otherwise it'll sound like some raw ethnic plucking instrument.
A couple points you didn't bring up: First, with regards to Basil in the bedroom and the accompanying photo, the whole thing bears striking resemblance to the beginning of the opening sequence when you first start a new game. Basil putting his hands on a crying Sunny's shoulders and telling him "everything is going to be okay." Second, and perhaps my favorite bit of symbolism in the sequence, with the photo of the push itself and only that photo, you are offered a yes/no prompt to pick it up. By that point, the player and presumably Sunny likely knows what it's going to show, so the prompt and the chair combine to be one last form of denial of the event, albeit a shallow one that is entirely unsustainable unless you don't do anything.
I always thought that since you have to screw in the white light bulb before you can pick it up is representative of how he has to commit to facing the truth
@@toasteroven7683 The White Lightbulb is meant to be the Yin-Yang to the Black Lightbulb in White Space. The Branch Coral says that the black lightbulb is the "repression of an idea". Breaking it was the beginning of the ending of the repression. What was repressed? The fact Sunny pushed Mari which directly led to her death. So, for Sunny to uncover that photo of what he did with his own hand, he had to take that lightbulb that he got by confronting the truth of what happened that day, and screw it in to illuminate the photo, one final act that Sunny does to declare to himself that he is no longer going to repress it. By screwing in a white light bulb, he's doing the exact opposite of repressing. Another neat tidbit: All of the photos, every single one of them, have been out of order up until that photo. But, once you get that photo, the rest of them are in perfect order.
@@SerialIntrovert Most of the black and white cutscenes between Faraway and Headspace seem to show the actual events that happened, only without context and sometimes with slight symbolism. Like, there's the one before first waking up as Sunny where Basil is helping Sunny deal with the emotions of seeing his photographs after what they did. Then the whole cutscene literally gets scribbled out which makes it the exact moment Sunny blacked out the photos. Basil's line "Let's make some new memories together, okay?" hits so much harder once you know what actually happened later. He's such a tragic character - the only thing he wanted was to not be alone and for his friends to be with him, and he ends up being eaten by guilt over causing the exact opposite.
I always interpreted the losing of fingers as the loss of control. Ive always thought the theme of hands in omori double as symbolism for having control and also his accident.
Hmm. This is actually a rather good theory as to what was meant. Sunny realizes that Mari fell down the stairs, Basil says "Everything is going to be OK" and then he steps out into the concert hall room and the next several photos involve him picking Mari up, holding her, Basil looking at his hands, as the whole situation spirals out of their control, despite Basil's attempts to reassure Sunny. Somewhere, deep down, Sunny knows that this will _not_ be OK, it never will be.
I personally see it as a symbolism of the phrase "The Truth hurts". Everytime Sunny finds out more about the truth, he feels more hurt by what he did. Since all of the happenings in Omori are his fault. Aubrey's downfall, her bullying of Basil, Hero's depression, all of it is because he hid the truth, so finding out about it hurts.
About the finger cutting Sure, it’s about self harm, but I have a different take. The player is thinking, “I’m hurting myself, but I need to figure out the truth” Similar to sunny’s thoughts, which are “it will hurt, but I have to relive that truth.”
"Bad Morning" (and the room it's played in!!) is also seen in Black Space when Omori is chasing after Basil trying to "rescue" him. In fact, the lamp is right there, and if you interact with the lamp, it says "There is no light bulb here." This is the very same room that you find when going through the Truth sequence. But, Omori was never interested in the Truth, was he? Quite the opposite.. he was intent on killing headspace Basil because he just wouldn't quit pulling the Truth out into the light. Omori probably knew that memory (photo) was laying on the ground, but walked right past it and Sunny's mind just didn't notice it because the room was dark, due to the lack of a light bulb.
Another very interesting thing close to this is that at the end of black space, same room omori kills basil and sits on the throne of hands, on the edges of the path leading up to basil there are actually 4 sprites that consist of 2 light pixels with red around them, and interacting with them simply reads “Finger.” I’m not entirely sure how it makes sense as it’s *before* sunny loses his fingers in the truth segment, but I definitely feel that it relates to that. As it seems sunny lives in “cycles” (since black space and the truth keeps getting moved, at the end of Humphrey the wall keeps talking about breaking the cycle, as well as the headspace reset in hikkikomori), sunny might have discovered the truth once or several times before omori simply ‘reset’ his memories again.
@@Emma_Wrox hmm. I'm kinda curious as to what happens if you overlay the two maps together, if the locations of the photos in the concert hall match up with where the fingers are laying in that area... doubt it, but you never know. It sounds crazy, about as crazy as the fact that the weird tone you hear at the very beginning of the game (before you see white space for the first time) is exactly the same as the tone you hear in the Hiko Route when Omori saves Basil before he ascends the ladder of hands up to Neighbor's Bedroom and there's only one other place the tone is played: If you lose to Omori and wake up in White Space as Omori right before he throws himself off the hospital roof.
@@Dhalin just looking through recordings of both that place and the truth segment, I can say that they most definitely won’t line up exactly, since the spacing between the fingers are far more than the photos (understandable as the path is also far longer), however, they do alternate side (from bottom to top) left, right, left, right, which is the same as the truth segment (assuming the stage where you spawn is the “middle”) so I guess to a miniature scale?
@@Emma_Wrox I wonder if the horizontal placement lines up, though. And yeah, the Red Space section is definitely stretched out to build up tension as you walk and walk and walk and follow the drag marks with that eerie screeching in the background, BUT, if the Photos line up horizontally... then that would be incredibly amazing.
I think the cut fingers refer to him practicing over and over in the violin, because in the unused text for the black photo album, a picture says: your fingers hurt of playing the violin (or something like that) Thanks for the video! Is awesome
Yeah, I always interpreted it as this as a manifestation (?) but also serving as an allusion to the pain he's feeling re-living the truth of what happened that day. Why it's depicted as his fingers getting chopped **off**, I'm not quite sure. But given how Omori in a lot of ways was an extremely violent manifestation of how his coping mechanisms had served to protect him but became no longer needed / got in the way of recovery, the brutal visualization here too as he continues down that painful path toward acceptance and recovery feels fitting.
A bit of an idea for the hand thing. The photorealistic hand is the same hand from the first encounter sunny has with something on the stairs. If you rewatch sunny as he goes downstairs there’s a hand that follows him, and eventually it catches up to him almost seemingly pushing him, quite similar to the truth.
I don't get how people think she was still alive when she was hung when the game made such a big point of her not breathing while laying in her bed after being pushed.
Sunny may had thought so, this would've explained why every scene with Basil in the black space ends up with Basil's brutal death (as if Sunny tries to blame Basil for Marie's death, note that these scenes happen before the truth scene). What makes this hypothesis interesting is that basically both boys (as well as the players) may see both of them as murderers.
@@CooLooZ I see it more as offing a whiteness because it would make things easier. That and Sunny desperately trying to avoid the truth at all costs and kill of that bit of guilt constantly nagging him, embodied as the only whiteness, Basil.
@@lolymop333 actually Basil being missing in almost the entire game in headspace could been seen as how Sunny was represing the truth and by that the person that was also there when everything happened, so yeah Basil being killed in Blackspace really could simbolice how Sunny doesn't want to remember such a traumatic experience
I saw one comment about the finger chopping him beating himself up. I disagree. Hold a large item in your hand you have a grip of it. Remove one finger. The grip is weaker. In my opinion it's him losing his grip on the lies and slowly coming to reality. If you look at the hand it's Omori's hand. Omori is loosing his grip on Sunny. But to do so it's causing a lot of pain in the process. The more Omori "loses his grip" on Sunny the more Sunny can embrace the truth.
The truth sequence and of course a little bit before the final boss fight to final duet are literally two of the best sections i have ever played in a game. Even when I already knew what was going to happen when I was playing this for my friend, I still felt that tension and the impact was still not lost on me (for the truth sequence). Just, I fucking love the chord when you finally see what's going on with Mari and Sunny on the stairs. It's fucking so chilling and I get chills every time.
I really like how bad morning sounds out of sync and is simplified to the basic notes: it sounds as if sunny is humming it by memory; especially with how it steers away from the notes of good morning at the end. To me, it sounds like someone trying to sing themselves their favorite song in-order to comfort themselves- but they don't quite remember the tune anymore. It fits perfectly with the section it's put in.
it kind of reminds me of sixs theme from little nightmares. 'cause its pretty similar. a childs voice humming, quiet and slightly out of tune, as if shes afraid and trying to comfort herself.
UPDATE AND WOW THIS WAS A YEAR LATER: SHE WAS DEFINITELY CRUSHED BUT SHE LIKES THE DUET??? WHAT??? 😭 and she no longer my crush, we dating but that's besides the point of this update-
My favourite scene over the whole Truth sequence is likely when Sunny sits on the armchair, it would turn into a bright, peaceful room with descriptions of how great the environment is, but when Sunny gets down, everything turns into hell. It's especially brilliant, considering how in the hikki route, it's omori ideal room It's a perfect visual representation to make the players actually feel how Sunny feels to suppress the truth compared to accepting it, making us truly understand why he would have coped with the method he used
the truth sequence is by far my favorite part of the game, to me, it's one of the best plot twist reveals I've seen in most media. the whole time you were lead to believe that mari had committed suicide, then you take a horrific and agonizing trip down memory lane and find out it was actually manslaughter at the hands of her little brother. also, the amount of foreshadowing that leads to this point is outstanding.
About the chopped fingers, every interpretation can be possible. But the first thing that came to my mind was that during Sunny and Mari's rehearsals for the recital, his fingers would've hurt from how long he was playing the violin. His fingers hurt and he can't even play the violin as perfectly as Mari expects him to be. He played the violin just so he could spend more time with his sister, but with him breaking the instrument and accidentally pushing Mari down the stairs, it ironically made it no longer possible for him to see her at all. An easy explanation of it in Sunny's POV would be "If I didn't have my hands to push Mari, this wouldn't happen."
@@welcometovibespace5596 oh shit, my bad, his name just caught my attention in the credits, either way him and everyone else that worked on the soundtrack did one hell of a job
@@keroppi1933 oh it’s ok ^^, I think it’s important to give credit to all the people that worked on this project instead of just one famous person for such bangers
I believe the main reason why the photos are based on Basil's point of view is that Sunny still have not accepted the truth, that is why he is looking at it on a third person's perspective. He is still dissociating himself from the events. That is why once he picks up the photo where he pushed down Mari, all the photos beyond slowly shifts from Basil's point of view to Sunny's point of view. When one undergoes a traumatic event, some people dissociate themselves from the event by telling it in a third person's perspective. By doing so, it is making their mind believe that the event did not happen to them, but to someone else. That is why usually in a traumatic response, acceptance is the hardest to do since it makes you accept that yes, those events happened to you, and yes, it still affects you to this day.
3:30 More than that. The entire truth sequence is played out in the dream, meaning that there is no rational way that a "truth photo album" could exist in real life. The reason why Basil gives you this is because the photo album withholds your memories permanently, similar to the way that Basil will forever be cursed with the knowledge of Mari's true cause of death.
I see the finger chopping as a last-ditch effort of Sunny's mind trying to stop him from remembering. In the scene, Sunny gets more and more mutilated as he picks up more photos and the way I see it is as a way Omo-cat was showing us that.
I accidentally spoiled myself about the truth about Mari’s Death (Thank you Fandom) so I already knew she was dead all along but I did not know what they did with her body by framing it as suicide so it was kinda left me shocked and speechless for sometime. Honestly this scene is beautiful yet scary at the same time.
To be honest Mari being dead was sth you could guess before they mention it in the game. In your first night IRL, if you open the door before going to sleep and encounter Mari, you can infer that she's dead by the reflection on the bathroom's mirror, you can even infer that she died hung up by her twisted neck. But even if you don't open the door on the first night, the fact that there's no trace of her in the house, Sunny hasn't come out in four years and Kel is worried are pretty obvious hints
About the hands, I interpreted them a bit differently. A recurring thing in Omori is that Omori is always near red hands. He even sits on a throne of them and holds Basil captive with them, showing he’s definitely in control of them. They drag you back to whitespace if you wander too far, keeping you away from the truth. When Sunny picks up the pictures, parts of his memories come back and a finger comes off symbolizing Omori losing grip on Sunny’s mind. Once he’s picked up all the pictures, the hand has no fingers and Sunny knows the truth. Omori loses his grip on him completely and that’s why they have to fight over it. I know the hand isn’t red but the realistic look of it makes me think it’s still Omoris. It’s kind of greyish which could be Omoris actual hand instead of the red ones he controls.
Oh yeah, the scribbling over the family photo means: Sunny, after 4 years of being a hikikomori, clearly might forget everyone. (Remember the hellmari jumpscare and who was behind you door when you opened it? Remember meeting kel, as who he was before you opened the door? That's right, Sunny remembers his friends are their Headspace versions.) But yes, Sunny, for some reason, never forgot Mari.
I'm just saying if the photos in the truth were actually real and Mari *was* alive even after the fall and died from being hanged.... I mean i know they probably weren't real/isn't true but Holy shit.
I know thats a theory thats been floating around, but i really disagree as the point of bringing Mari back to their room first was because they hoped she was alive. Only after the all possibility that she was still alive completely gone that basil thinks of his plan
While i feel she was more than dead by the time she was moved, it is possible, given the fact that SOMETHING’s main characteristic is its eye, it could be symbolism for what her DEAD EYES possibly could have “saw”. Bc in one of the route before the Last Resort segment (the boardwalk sequence), instead of KEL being at the dock, it’s MARI herself. It’s hinted that during this segment that it wasn’t HEADSPACE MARI that ur with, but that its MARI herself as a ghost of sorts. While far-fetched, it could be MARI’s ghost’s perspective of events in the photos? And she’s showing us the truth from HER perspective? Idk about the last part, but the first part of my comment is more likely than the last. 😅
@Alyssa Coon yeah, tbh the 2nd part of my comment was early-morning spitballing too. But yeah, that makes sense too. Ive seen OMORI fanfics explore the “Basil’s memories/thoughts being in Sunny’s dreams” theme, and it DOES make sense, especially in the Hikkikomori route w/ Deeper Well and Black Space(s). While its highly unlikely, i kinda hope the creators continue OMORI in some fashion, whether by games, manga, etc., just to get a better glimpse into the story and lore of OMORI. Different perspectives and such.
I think the fingers being whacked off is pertaining to the part where he's being pointed at, he was the one who did it, all of his fingers are pointing at him because his mind forgot but his limbs remember if that makes any sense.
The moment I saw the photo of Mari and Sunny arguing, everything became clear. I skipped a heartbeat I couldn't believe it. It was "Oh... please no..." I couldn't contain my tears. Playing that whole sequence at 1 in the morning was something I'll never forget, even still replaying it again, it hurts just as badly. I never noticed the symbolism of how the photos were arranged, and how the places was basically reconstructing the truth. My favorite detail is definitely the last picture, where Mari looks back at Sunny. That was the moment Sunny's mind broke. Despite not breathing, she wasn't dead yet, but they went and hanged her, they loved her, and they killed her.
Even if you can still be "alive" after not breathing technically, I think the game wanted to signal to us that Mari wasn't alive before they hung her. Trust me, I want to think that they hung her and killed her- that's a headcanon want to have, but I just don't know if that's the case
regarding the fingers trope that was used a few times in the game, i always interpreted it as sunny spitefully regretting playing the violin at all, as that was the catalyst to everything in a self loathing and self harming twist, we visibly watch as his fingers are severed if i didnt have fingers, i couldnt play the violin if i didnt play the violin, i couldnt play with mari if i didnt play with mari, she wouldnt have been so hard on me if she wasnt so hard on me, i wouldnt have gotten mad if we had never fought, she would have never fallen everything would be ok in a similar twist we see dismembered fingers on the bloody trail to basil in red space, where the red hands stole him away and omori has to save him- where he instead decides to kill basil and takes his seat on the throne of hands if basil didnt have fingers, he couldnt have tied the noose surprisingly, everything might have actually been ok if he didnt notice that mari's head is, naturally, tilted down to the ground as she hangs- yet her eye is fixated on the boys- requiring her to hold her eyeball up to look at them many argue that eyes dont need to be closed for someone to be dead, but that completely misses the point the point is her head is DOWN, but her eye is looking UP she was still alive :^( the stairs didnt kill her, and instead the noose did, and thats why basil was so much more distraught over the event than you might expect, thats why he asks you to forgive him, and it's why despite your actions, he's still equally as guilty
But you also have to remember... Sunny and Basil were both children when this happened. They may not have known that one's eyes could stay open after death. She could have had that eye open, looking down, but in their horror, all they could think was that she was still looking at them... _Blaming them._ The part where Mari's corpse transforms into that Something signifies that this is still just the way Sunny's mind recalls the events, even as he tries to recall them as they happened, his young mind was full of panic and grief, and it's reasonable that he assumed that. He was only a child... Basil probably felt awful that he came up with that _childish_ plan to help Sunny, only to realize that he only made things worse for him in the long run as they both matured and Basil watched him continue to hide himself away... Only once he'd matured did Basil realize the consequences of his plan, and he blamed himself entirely for Sunny's continued decline.
I agree with most things here, save for the last part. The game has made it a point to show the player over and over that while Mari was still in bed (when Sunny and Basil brought her up) she was already *no longer breathing* -- meaning she already died before they hung her. I also agree with the comment above -- that while Mari's eye was open due to the body's muscles relaxing, the eye looking directly at them may have been a distortion of what they were truly seeing due to how they were under such pressure, panic and grief. It's probably because they knew subconsciously that they were guilty and none of this was okay, and so Mari 'looking' at them solidified for them that they are the ones to look for for blame.
7:15 I don't think anybody's mentioned this on RU-vid before, but those lines are the exact same ones you see in the opening scene of the game, as you see Basil comforting a crying Sunny. I think it's brilliant how horrifyingly knowing the truth changes the whole meaning of that scene.
The closet by the stairs: Sunny is pretending its not even there, simalar to when he sees Basil dead, his door dissapears, and the text "theres nothing there" is shown when you interact where the door used to be, just like the closet
The fingers are used for playing the piano and the violin. as the music and its emotions are literally the cure for Sunny in the end, when the fingers were being cut before, it shows how the situation seems hopeless, and also as punishment; not longer being able to play the instruments (for both; guilt about her and shame for him)
this was one of my favorite parts of the game. The indirect storytelling reminds me a lot of yume nikki, dot flow, or the animal crossing horror village, aika village.
when I experienced the truth sequence, I was clueless. One thing I do with any piece of media is try my best to not think or theorize while playing or on my off time of playing, that way everything is a surprise. As I was picking up each and every photo nothing clicked. I didn't get what it was trying to tell me. I knew something had happened, I knew something was bad, but it all hit me when the final slideshow of all the photos happened. it hit me all at once. I was stunned. Finally for the first time in my entire playthrough I couldn't stop thinking about how terrible it was, how I would feel in that situation, how I knew that none of my friends could ever forgive me, I felt all the exact same guilt sunny did. I was terrified of myself. It took a lot to continue after that, I still haven't played the bad ending but I already know what the outcome is, (thanks a lot spoilers) but I feel like if I had the choice to do the bad ending straight away as that happened on my first playthrough, I would of done it. The Truth sequence is by far the most emotional and mind bending scene I have ever experienced in any game. Omori will forever be my favourite game because of this one part. It was truly an experience.
Sad fact: the photo of basil comforting sunny, he is partially calming him down, he is actually waking him of because i believed so much happened he passed out and that’s when the “Head Space” was created
i got like 10+ goosebumps of this video, i never EVER thought the truth photo sequence would be THIS deep. At first i thought what i thought, but when i saw thia video, i was COMPLETELY wrong.
An interesting detail I noticed: During when Sunny and Basil fight, Basil mentions SOMETHING, saying that he’ll “protect” Sunny from SOMETHING. This certainly implies that Sunny has told Basil about SOMETHING and his hallucinations
I dont think that's it. SOMETHING seems to be more of a personal guilt. One only SUNNY can see. Also SUNNY became a hikikomori and shut himself in his house for a few years. Of course BASIL was there too and saw mari so he also has a SOMETHING. I think that BASIL'S SOMETHING is more of what sunny thinks is following and consuming BASIL. While BASIL doesn't see SUNNY'S SOMETHIN, he can assume that he also has a SOMETHING following him.
After collecting the photo in the armchair room if you go and look into the mirror again you can see a lit up disfigured and bloody version of Sunny’s face, a lot more clear than the one seen before the photo is collected.
the truth album is my favorite part of the game, it’s so genius. if you think about it, the player isn’t the only one finding out the truth. sunny is as well. through the album, this is basically sunny realizing he’s been lying to himself the entire time, and has been forcing himself to forget and hiding behind the lie that mari hung herself. hiding behind that lie not for the sake of not getting in trouble, but for the sake of his own sanity. to not have to take on the mental damage of killing his own sister. the truth album represents sunny realizing that he needs to stop hiding from the truth. that he needs to stop running away, that he can’t live in his precious little world of sunshine and rainbows forever.
Bit late to comment, but I initially experienced this game through someone's lets play, and about halfway through (after I knew that mari "hung herself") I got spoiled that she died by falling down the stairs, or being pushed down. It kinda gave me a unique perspective of "who would do such a horrible thing?" which made the truth still hit just as hard for me.
I thought it was clever of the game to make us put The Truth pictures back in order using the photo album. Not only is it relevant to the narrative of making Sunny piece together his memories of what happens, but it adds to the horror of taking something innocent and making it scary. We've been used to doing this mini game for fun friend memories in Headspace and Faraway Town, so it's a gut punch to force us to do this with the memories of Mari's death.
I figured out the twist(minus the staged suicide bit) pretty early on, I'm savvy like that and I picked up on the symbolism in the first SOMETHING encounter. It didn't help, though, this part was so well done it still hurt like a truck. If anything, it made it worse, having to slowly confirm my suspicions as the game seemed to rub it in my face. Like "Yeah, you were right, that's what happened. Do you feel good you figured it out?" And my answer is "No." Also, I thought Sunny became more bloody either to represent Omori trying more and more to stop him from finding out, or that the closer he got the more painful it was becoming. I believe the hand losing fingers is "injuries" he's accruing from persisting through this.
I think that the hand symbolizes sunny not being able to escape the truth after he looks at all the photos. Once those fingers are gone, there's no going back. Moreover, in white space, hands teleport you when you go too far, essentially when you try to escape it. So, he can't be sent back to white space. That's just my theory, though.
Spoiler for the shut-in/omori route that I thought was interesting after watching this If Omori destroys sweetheart's castle via the Keeper, it becomes a room identical to the "happy" version of the one where the big reveal occurs. When Sunny sits in the chair and the room brightens, 10:20 , it's also identical in dialogue to when Omori sits in that room. I wonder what that could mean.
My favourite part of the game wou!d definitely be entering the Lost Library for the first time. I took special note when Mari hinted at it and was paid off with a tranqui! break from Sweetheart's heated battle. I made sure to read every book and eventually filled in the name gaps in the books, the book about Sunny sleeping in the car and making a promise to never forget these core memories really struck me in the heart, even the second time around. Speaking of the second time, that's when the final book's line of 'If only he didn't have to play the violin' made sense, it was a true stab to the heart that I had to take a minute to pause and cry over
considering the “photos”, they’re definitely not actual photos (why would basil take a photo of mari at the end lmao) but i don’t think it’s from sunnys perspective either, it’s basil’s memories of the event left for sunny. remember, “my thoughts will follow you into your dreams” also applies to basil. basil was the one pushing for sunny to remember, and finally he is able to pick up the pieces.
After overthinking about the game and why are fingers and hands so important in Sunny's mind, I remembered the Truth deleted entries where Sunny says that his fingers hurt from practising the violin - So the part where Sunny's finger are cut one by one means he's not just remembering the fact that he killed Mari, but he's also remembering the pain and stress he felt before that
I figured out Mari died somehow and involved stairs and Sunny early on; however, him and Basil covering it up like a sucide, which explains they act the way they do. Sunny repressed hos memories and essential tried to ignore his emotions and is the most unstable, which id why he is the only one with a third emotional stage for happy, sad, and angry. Basil basically became drenched with guilt and sought Sunny for emotional support, which did not last long.
3:24 That honestly wouldn't make any sense considering that, even though Basil liked to take photos of people when they were living their lives, not paying attention, he only did it for happy, heartwarming moments. Even if he had begun taking pictures of Mari and Sunny's argument, he would've stopped as soon as he realized the dark turn it was taking.
Gonna be Honest My Fav Scene From The Game Was The Bit Before The Final Fight It Was Great The Little Cutscene With Omori Swing The Knife Down And The Ost Starting Right After It Was So Cool And Hard Hitting To Me
Tbh as soon as i saw the picture where they were arguing. I already knew Just like the time i watched lynix decode R I P U R H O U S E With only R I P U R H knowing that his house was gonna go bye bye
What i love about the game is that people are more inclined to do the good/true ending instead of the neutral or bad one. I think the good is the best cause it really shows the journey of Sunny and how he finds the truth in a beautiful yet super sad way
here's the order of my favorite parts of OMORI! 1: sequence to the truth 2: ... Close your eyes, you'll be here soon Ichi ni san shi go fun Tokidoki, hontou ni netai Demo, kono waado dekinai Oyasumi Oyasumi Oyasumi Oyasu- Oyasumi, oyasumi Close your eyes and you'll leave this dream Oyasumi, oyasumi I know that it's hard to do Days go by, shou ga nai Moments pass, shattered glass Hands of time, where's that chime? In my head I'll just, I'll just I'll just, I'll just Hands (Hands!) of time will wring my neck Every little moment spells regret But I don't have to feel this way As a voice inside my head Oyasumi Oyasumi Oyasumi Oyasu- Oyasumi, oyasumi Close your eyes and you'll leave this dream Oyasumi, oyasumi I know that it's hard to do Oyasumi, oyasumi Close your eyes and you'll leave this dream Oyasumi, oyasumi I know that it's hard to do Oyasumi, oyasumi Close your eyes and you'll leave this dream Oyasumi, oyasumi I know that it's hard to do 3: final duet 4: everything related to the dream world reset (hikikomori route) like neighbor's bedroom, stranger fight etc. 5: black space and lastly 6: OMORI fight forgot about ghost party, that one is top 0
I agree that it's a masterpiece... However, I mean it in a completely different context. The truth-sequence has a lot of... questionable design-choices. The truth-sequence, for a lack of better words, would make more sense to be Basils memory than Sunnys. The way the 'memory' is experienced can be accurately summarized as 'Basils POV with a suspicous lack of Sunnys own input'. There's other weird stuff too, like Basils dialogue in the meadow or the discrepancies between 'memory' and reality (The sliding door is turned into a swing door; the forest behind the tree is replaced by a clearing and a fence; etc.). Especially when combined with HS-lore and applied physical and psychological realism, everything seems to hint at a case of False Memories and SDD/SP.
The truth is for sure the only scene who made me cry for months I am not mad It's just so sad that this just get me, if it's just not real But the story brooooo...
I never really thought of sunny as having amnesia surrounding the situation. Actually, I had a completely different interpretation. At one point of the game, it was mentioned that sunny was a daydreamer, that when he was placed at a window seat in class, he would zone out into fantastical daydreams. Of course, as a recovering maladaptive daydreamer, I am biased. But I thought, because of this information, Sunny lost himself to that fantastical daydream universe after his trauma with Mari, and used it to distract from what he had done. He took on a different name, spending time with friends, similarly to how daydreamers irl will often daydream about what they need in life, taking on a different identity so they can dissociate from their own. I believe that a part of Sunny already knew, that it was a conscious decision to push it down, and that he wasn't learning it for the first time during the truth sequence. That's just my interpretation though teehee
just want to add how unreliable the narrator in this case sunny and basil are, theyre both extremely young and traumatized. Basil was always a character who saw the good side of things, and it was clear that he'd almost never take photos of the bad things that actually happened. Mari is protrayed so ideally, but I think her prefectionisim, injury and the way it's implied how she treated sunny before the rehersal reveals that Mari was mostlikely going through some form of intense mental turmoil herself. She knows Sunny is shy, introverted, quiet and easily vulnerable in some aspects. It's a shame we dont really get a full view of mari and instead this very ideal picture with only a glimpse of her other side. But in the end that makes things more spicy
These machines are singing With the blaring and the bleeping 'Neath the arcade lights Saccharine cacophany That mask the living battery It hides its cries Children never listen When they're told it's rude to stare Always causing problem 'Til you stuff them in a bear Now they see the world Through rotting cold unblinking eyes Made to entertain, automaton animatronics Made from my design Flawless execution and an elegant solution To a perfect crime Children never listen Parasitic like a pox Always causing problems 'Til you stuff them in a fox Outreageous and audacios To think there's a child inside Cut them down to forge forever We'll ignite with lifelines severed In potential lies endless life awoken Damn them to their final verdict Give their life to the deserving Let their remnants cry I remain unbroken! Belive that everything you hear from me The sweet nothings behind my golden smile Tales of pets and toys that'll get returned If they just follow and be good a while Children never listen Should be seen and never heard Always crying out Until you stuff them in a bird Trough lies I get new life All for a low price of a child! Cut them down to forge forever We'll ignite with lifelines severed In potential lies endless life awoken Damn them to their final verdict Give their life to the deserving Let their remnants cry I remain unbroken! The sweetness of life eternal Taken from an underserving While they cry in fates infernal I feed on the ghost in machine It's so clear to me In my immortality That an Afton's name shall be FOREVER! CUT THEM DOWN TO FORGE FOREVER WE'LL IGNITE WITH LIFELINE SEVERED IN POTENTIAL LIES ENDLESS LIFE AWOKEN DAMN THEM TO THEIR FINAL VERDICT GIVE THEIR LIFES TO DESERVING LET THEIR REMNANTS CRY THIS PERFECTION, MY DESIGN FOR AN AFTON, FOR ALL TIME WILL REMAIN UNBROKEN!
